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Space Shuttle: Life Or Death

Do you feel that the design and implementation of the US based Space Shuttle is primitive and ineffective at providing safe flight? The following information gives visual movies and explanations that may help in your deliberation.

Questions of safety remain

On Wednesday, the space shuttle Discovery is set to repeat a trip it has made 30 times before: the climb from launchpad to orbit. It might seem routine.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/shuttle-jump.htm

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Launch: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/graphics/shut...rn/flash_01.htm
Orbit: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/graphics/shut...rn/flash_02.htm
Reentry: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/graphics/shut...rn/flash_03.htm

Death Life Shuttle Space

I took years to develop the space shuttle to where it is today. It is a marvel of modern technology. Unfortunately, we stopped developing it in the 1980's. You would think, nearly twenty five years later, that we could develop something better and safer. A private party has now flown into space twice in a personal space craft, yet NASA cannot come up with a better space traveling vehicle besides the shuttle? They need to stop spending tax money on a flawed design and spend it designing and building a better space ship.

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I agree and this can be shown in the latest news report which shows how primative the shuttle can be:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA has called off Wednesday's launch of space shuttle Discovery because of a faulty fuel-tank sensor. Ref. Yahoo / CNN

Death Life Shuttle Space

MORE DELAYS, DANGERS AS SHUTTLE FLEET AGES?

Maybe NASA's managers still view the shuttle as the Cadillac of space technology, but they sometimes make it sound as if it were a cranky old Ford with a few too many miles on it.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...49187%2C00.html

Death Life Shuttle Space

They must be getting really desperate to start bending their own rules to start a liftoff, they better pray nothing goes wrong or a lot of people are going to loose their jobs for sure:

NASA'S WILLINGNESS TO BEND RULES FOR TODAY'S LAUNCH DRAWS REPROOF
With the countdown entering its final hours and a fuel gauge problem still unexplained, NASA said it is prepared to bend its long-standing safety rules to launch the shuttle today on the first flight since Columbia's doomed mission 2 1/2 years ago.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C.51167%2C00.html

Space Shuttle: Life Or Death

They are fortunate nothing happened, but I hope it will convince them to redesign.

Grounded

NASA grounds the space shuttle progam while engineers determine the effects of debris falling from Discovery during blastoff.
Ref. CNN